[R] Problem installing R 4.2 on Ubuntu 20-04

[Micha Silver]

Just a guess:


On 25/07/2022 17:43, Witold E Wolski wrote:
> I am failing to get R 4 installed on Ubuntu. I am following the
> instructions given here:
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> These are the errors I am getting:
> <start>
> parallels using ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads/fragpipe/bin$ sudo
> apt install --no-install-recommends r-base
>
--no-install-recommends might be your problem

Try running without that.


(And also do sudo apt update first)


> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
And this is why that --no-install-recommends is causing the install to 
fail:
>   r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.2.1-1.2004.0) but it is not going
> to be installed
>            Depends: r-recommended (= 4.2.1-1.2004.0) but it is not
> going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> <end>
>
>
> Best regards
> Witek
>
>
> --
> Witold Eryk Wolski
>
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Micha Silver
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